Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 13, 2023


Episode 2077 Scott Adams： Masks Prove Science Ineffective, Newsom's Persuasion, CNN Mind Readers


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Cenk Uyger tweets that real adults don t play sippin' games, and a new poll shows that 75% of Americans say religion is not important to them in their daily lives. Scott Adams explains why.

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00:00:45.500 Oh, Joe says real adults don't play sipping games. Who hurt you, Joe? Was there something
00:01:01.520 in your past that hurt you? Well, let's talk about all the news, which is delightful and entertaining
00:01:13.280 today. Number one, you all know left-leaning Cenk Uyger, Cenk Uyger, whose name I can never
00:01:24.360 pronounce, but I can spell it C-E-N-K. You all know who he is, right? He tweeted this today,
00:01:33.700 and I'm going to give him credit for this. I have to admit, Cenk, even though he's solidly 1.00
00:01:40.660 on a team, he does occasionally see the whole field and let you know that he can see it.
00:01:49.760 So I do have respect for his opinion because I don't respect anybody who can't see the other 1.00
00:01:55.240 side's point of view. He can see it, but sometimes prefers the other point of view. That I respect.
00:02:02.380 But if you can't even explain the other side, then I don't have much respect for your opinion.
00:02:08.400 You have to at least understand the other point. So here's Cenk tweeting this. He says,
00:02:14.760 there's a 0% chance I would vote Trump, but look at how the right wing accepts people who agree with
00:02:21.300 them 5%, whereas left wing tries to banish anyone who disagrees with them 0.05%.
00:02:30.580 But that's not the real left. It's a bunch of posers pretending to represent the left.
00:02:38.380 Now, he sees it, right? Now, I would say that is a perfect explanation of my audience because I
00:02:47.160 don't think anybody disagrees with their own audience more than I do. Do you think that I
00:02:53.560 could have a left wing audience and disagree with them as much as I do with this crowd? Impossible.
00:02:59.760 This is mostly people who say, well, I disagree with that, but I like hearing that point of view
00:03:05.760 as long as it's, you know, well presented. And then I can, you know, test against my current opinion
00:03:12.340 or maybe change it. But I don't see that on the left. But to Cenk's point, I'm going to meet him in
00:03:19.400 the middle, which is that I don't think, as he says, the ordinary Democrats are not that. The ordinary
00:03:28.300 Democrats are also accepting of people being different. It's just the weird control group of the left
00:03:35.480 that's ruining everything. There'll be a lot more on that point as we work through the headlines.
00:03:41.200 Turns out there's a theme. Don't you love it when I have a theme? Yes. The theme is brainwashing
00:03:47.680 and the history of it and why we're in trouble now, because we don't have enough of it.
00:03:57.280 That's the theme. The problem with the United States is insufficient brainwashing. And I mean that.
00:04:05.740 I mean that. I'll prove it as we go along. All right. So I would once again like to use
00:04:12.540 Cenk's tweet as my cue to show some appreciation for all of you. Because I know you disagree with
00:04:21.220 me a lot. And you're probably going to disagree with me today on at least one topic. And you still
00:04:27.740 come back. So that's good on you. It's a good look. Rasmussen did a poll on religion.
00:04:35.740 And I guess I just want to check if this matches your observation in the United States.
00:04:43.800 75% of American adults say religious faith is important to their daily lives. Does that match 1.00
00:04:50.380 your experience? That 75% of the people that you deal with feel that religious faith is important,
00:04:59.200 not just in general, not just in general, but to their daily life? That tracks? I'm seeing a lot
00:05:08.580 of yeses. A lot of people say, yeah, that looks about right. On YouTube, there's more no's than
00:05:13.280 yeses. So that's probably just a difference in the audience. But there's a mix. I thought that was
00:05:20.120 higher than I would have expected. I'm not saying it's wrong. I wouldn't have expected it to be that
00:05:25.660 high. 44% of adults go to church or synagogue or mosque at least once a month. Does that sound
00:05:36.620 right, based on your experience? A little less than half of the population goes to a church or
00:05:43.700 synagogue or mosque once a month? That feels like it could be right. I don't know. I would have guessed 1.00
00:05:51.180 a little bit high. But I'll accept that. That sounds about right. And, well, that's all I had
00:05:59.340 to say on that. Apparently, it's not that much changed recently. All right. How many of you saw
00:06:05.980 on social media that there was a big old study that looked at all the mask effectiveness studies
00:06:13.580 and declared that masks don't work? How many saw that story? Yes or no? Did you see it? Yes, yes, yes.
00:06:23.980 Let me see it. All right. So here's the part where you're not going to like it. A lot of you didn't
00:06:31.020 see that story on social media. Yeah, it's all, well, there's quite a difference between the locals.
00:06:37.340 All right. So all of you who said yes, that you saw the story, are you ready for this? No, you didn't.
00:06:46.220 That doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. Do you think you saw a story that says masks, the studies of masks
00:06:56.540 were looked at, and that have found that masks are ineffective? Do you think you saw that today,
00:07:02.060 right? Does anybody still think, is anybody still going to say they saw that? That didn't happen.
00:07:09.180 It's widely believed that happened. It's all over the internet. Didn't happen. Let me tell you what did happen.
00:07:17.740 There was a study
00:07:21.500 in which masks prove that science is ineffective. That's actually what happened. There was not a study
00:07:29.100 where science proved masks were ineffective. That didn't happen, but that's the way it's being
00:07:34.780 reported. What did happen is that people did things and they showed that masks proved science doesn't
00:07:43.020 work. Meaning that they don't know whether masks make any difference or not because the mask situation
00:07:50.540 proved science doesn't work. They didn't prove anything about masks. They only proved science itself
00:07:58.060 doesn't work. Here's what I mean by that. There were lots of studies, but none of them met the minimum
00:08:04.780 criteria for credibility. Now, how many of you didn't know that? Is there anybody who didn't already know
00:08:13.900 there's no such thing as a mask study, you should believe? Do you know why I've known that for three
00:08:20.540 years? Because on day one, the people who know what they're talking about said,
00:08:25.580 you cannot do a proper study on masks and coronavirus because if you did, it would be unethical.
00:08:34.220 It actually is logically impossible if you also want to be ethical and anybody who does a big study
00:08:41.420 is going to have to be. There isn't any way to study it. It is an unstudiable by its nature. You
00:08:48.140 cannot use science to find out if masks work. It isn't a thing. Here's why. You would have to expose
00:08:57.500 people to actual death or the risk of death if the experts say, well, we think masks might work.
00:09:07.100 They might. Under that condition, and that is what the experts largely said, well, they should or might
00:09:13.660 or it could or maybe in some situations. Under that situation, you can't test it. So here's what they
00:09:20.300 could test. They could test masks without coronavirus. They could test it on other stuff.
00:09:28.300 That doesn't tell you anything. Does it? And here's the only thing I would have wanted them to test.
00:09:35.180 But of course, it would be completely unethical. The only thing I would have wanted them to test is
00:09:41.740 people in nursing homes who have visitors that always wear masks and keep their visits to, let's say,
00:09:48.780 five minutes versus ones who kept it to five minutes and didn't wear masks. And then you see how
00:09:57.020 many old people die. And then you know what the difference is. If it's a really big test and you do
00:10:02.540 everything else right, there's nothing else that would be useful. Everything else is just sort of,
00:10:08.140 well, it's in the general area of masks and science, but it doesn't really tell you anything.
00:10:15.100 So when you're watching the headlines today, and it's going to be all over the news tonight,
00:10:20.780 watch how many people report something like, science just proves that masks don't work. Now, to be
00:10:28.140 clear, I oppose masks because there is no science that says they work. Is that fair enough? Does anybody
00:10:38.860 have a problem with that? Oh, locals just crashed. God, amazing.
00:10:48.620 All right, sorry. Let me see if I can just close it and reopen again.
00:10:59.980 I may have to abandon locals if I can't get the live stream to work. I'm not going to abandon the
00:11:06.380 entire use of it, but I don't think live streaming makes any sense anymore.
00:11:10.540 Let's see if I can fire this up. Oh, this is just, this is beyond annoying. I can't even express
00:11:19.900 how frustrating that is. All right, I think I'm just going to have to tell the locals people I
00:11:25.660 can't use this in the morning anymore.
00:11:30.780 I guess it's going to be just YouTube or Rumble. Rumble doesn't do live stream.
00:11:35.580 Well, let me take that back. Rumble doesn't do live stream in a, in a way that would be easy
00:11:40.780 enough to use every day, unless you have an engineer or something.
00:11:47.740 Video is up. The chat was down. Yeah, it looks like it's all down now.
00:11:53.660 Yeah. Let's try it one more time. Maybe it'll come back. Who knows?
00:11:58.380 But I doubt it. All right. Well, I'll just let it run there. Oh God.
00:12:08.940 I've never wanted to punch a computer this bad. I just want to take that iPad and just,
00:12:14.540 and just destroy it on the floor. But except I know the iPad is working fine.
00:12:18.380 All right. Well, moving on. Just watch how the news treats this mask study. They are not going
00:12:31.580 to do what I did, which is tell you that science doesn't work. We don't know about masks. But I'm
00:12:36.460 opposed to them because they definitely have a downside, but no, no verifiable upside.
00:12:42.780 It looks like the street might be coming back. I can't tell.
00:12:53.100 Yeah, let's see.
00:12:57.100 We'll see what happens. All right. Newsom has a new approach against Republicans that's really strong.
00:13:06.460 And it's so strong, it makes me wonder if a professional helped him. Do you remember in 2016,
00:13:14.540 when I called out the word dark? And all the, oh, there we go. Locals is back up.
00:13:23.100 When Newsom, we're talking about Newsom, if you're on Locals, you just, if you just joined us.
00:13:28.700 So Newsom is starting to call Republicans bullies. And when I heard him use that, I thought to myself,
00:13:37.900 oh, no, that's professional grade. So here's what's not professional. Oh, those Republicans are all
00:13:48.860 racists. That's not really professional work. It's effective, but that didn't come from any kind
00:13:55.180 of professional. It's just what everybody does. But when you hear somebody use a unique word like
00:14:01.580 Trump's speech is dark, you say dark. That's a general word that can suck up anything that Trump
00:14:10.380 does. You can call anything he does dark. And then that's good persuasion because it just absorbs
00:14:17.660 everything he does and puts it in the same label. Dark. It's dark. We don't like dark.
00:14:23.260 Well, this bully thing does the same thing because you could apply it to a whole bunch of different
00:14:28.060 policies and go, well, there they are again. Look at those bullies. And bullies are something that 0.99
00:14:36.300 we're going to associate with our own experience. If you've been bullied, it's perfect. Here's why you
00:14:43.500 have to worry about Newsom. That's not just good in terms of persuasion. That's not just good.
00:14:51.420 That's as good as you can get. And if you don't know the difference, you might find out when he's
00:14:57.660 your president. Because there's a lot of stuff that... Yeah, Newsom bugs me a little bit. He's a little...
00:15:04.540 He projects an arrogance that's just hard to get past. And he seems kind of artificial, but I suppose all
00:15:11.100 politicians do. But when you see him pull out the bully's persuasion, I just said to myself,
00:15:17.500 uh-oh, he either has somebody really powerful, you know, some kind of wizard helping him out.
00:15:25.420 Or he did that on his own, which would suggest he's got a lot of game. But that's not normal.
00:15:31.260 Right? Using the bully framing, that's suggestive of a higher level of persuasion skill. So I'd watch
00:15:41.820 out for that. That's a really good attack.
00:15:43.580 All right. So apparently both... Who is it? NPR and PBS are both pulling back from Twitter
00:15:54.540 because they're labeled by Musk as government-backed media. I guess they've used different
00:16:01.660 words to say that the government funds them, or the government backs them, or they're affiliated.
00:16:05.980 And Musk just continues dunking on these people. It is so funny. He tweets, NPR literally said
00:16:17.180 on their website, quote, federal funding is essential to public radio. And then they took it down.
00:16:26.460 So their own website agreed with Musk that they are government-funded and that it's essential to their
00:16:34.700 operation. Their own website said that. And then when Musk essentially agreed with what they say on
00:16:41.740 their own website, they said, you damn liar. And then they went to the website and they took it down.
00:16:49.660 Now, this is the group that you depend on for your news. They couldn't even tell you the accurate news
00:16:56.140 of what their own website says. That really happened. They could not even give you
00:17:02.140 an accurate description of the headline of their own website. It's almost impossible to believe
00:17:10.460 that this is real. Like, this doesn't even sound like a sitcom. It would be too absurd to be on TV
00:17:17.180 as like a joke. It's that far gone. It's just crazy shit at this point. But watching Elon Musk
00:17:27.180 continuously dunk on the media and be right is really fun to watch. It's the best show in town.
00:17:37.820 All right. So let's talk about Biden's proposed mandate that two-thirds of all the cars by 2030 have
00:17:46.380 to be electric cars or electric vehicles, let's say. What do you think of that? What do you think of the
00:17:54.060 government telling you that two-thirds of the cars have to be electric?
00:18:02.940 It's nuts. It's ridiculous. It's idiotic. It's also being forced by the government, right?
00:18:09.980 We don't like that. All right. I'm gonna go contrarian on this.
00:18:16.220 And when I say contrarian, I mean, I'm gonna disagree with most of my audience. And I'm gonna
00:18:24.780 give you the steel, I'm gonna give you the steel man argument, right? So I want you to hear the best
00:18:30.140 argument for Biden's point of view. I'm not sure if it's the argument he would make. But if I were to
00:18:36.860 defend Biden's government overreach, would you agree it's sort of an overreach for the government to
00:18:45.500 put this much of a boot on free markets? Feels like it, right? So let's agree it feels wrong.
00:18:53.340 I think we could all agree on that. It feels wrong. We don't like the government imposing stuff on free
00:18:58.620 market. But would you also agree that the government routinely imposes itself on the free market,
00:19:06.460 and not always to bad effect? Not always to bad effect. Let me give you an example. When Kennedy
00:19:13.740 said we're going to go to the moon, that created a bunch of, you know, NASA and government funded
00:19:20.220 activity, but also a lot of free market stuff that would support the government's efforts. So that was
00:19:26.860 a case of the government putting a big boot on something, but probably produced some benefits.
00:19:33.980 Can you think of other situations in which the government has put a big boot on things,
00:19:38.940 and it worked out okay? I'll give you one. I've replaced most of my light bulbs with
00:19:48.140 LEDs. Now, in the beginning, the first LEDs, you couldn't dim them, you know, unless you put in a special
00:19:55.500 special base to it. So you couldn't dim them, and you also couldn't get different colors.
00:20:01.420 So it'd be like this white color instead of a nice warm orangey color that you might prefer.
00:20:07.180 So when the government forced everybody to get LEDs, I would say for a long time it was mostly bad,
00:20:14.300 because you couldn't get the light bulbs you wanted, the free market was being interfered with,
00:20:18.460 the light bulbs cost too much, and then they weren't as good. So the government made you spend
00:20:24.140 more to get something that was less good. Well, as of today, you know, years have gone by. As of today,
00:20:32.780 you can dim your LEDs, and you can, in fact, I've got one red on my desk that I can change the color.
00:20:40.220 So we got to the place we needed to get, and I think LEDs will be cheaper, right? In the long run,
00:20:48.860 an LED would be cheaper than a regular incandescent bulb, I would think. Maybe not yet, but in the long
00:20:54.780 run, and then certainly with the usage. So there are a number of situations, which I think you could
00:21:01.340 point to, in which the government created a bunch of friction in the short run, but it did get us to a
00:21:09.260 place faster than maybe the free market would have gotten. There also, yeah, there are battery
00:21:16.700 breakthroughs, and there are other breakthroughs like that. So here's what I think about this. I
00:21:21.740 think that, in general, you have to be cautious about the government putting pressure on the free
00:21:26.620 market. So there should be every red flag in the world that goes off when that happens. In that part,
00:21:32.780 I agree with you. All the red flags are going, hey, get away from our free markets. But
00:21:39.820 that doesn't mean that every time they do it, it's going to fail. It just means you really got to
00:21:45.100 watch that stuff. I actually think that because there's a strategic homeland security element to
00:21:54.700 this, because I see this more as homeland security. So one of the things that I do that's maybe less
00:22:01.820 common in terms of looking at politics, is I don't separate national defense from economics.
00:22:09.420 To me, they're all the same. Because the best economy almost always wins the war, 0.97
00:22:14.380 right? Whoever has the most money. So to me, having the strongest defensive economy
00:22:23.980 is just part of homeland security.
00:22:27.020 So a big part of the EV push is connected with Biden also working on, and I don't think they do a
00:22:33.900 good enough job of selling this. Biden could do a better job of selling this. Because at the same
00:22:38.460 time they're forcing you to get electric cars, they're apparently putting a lot of effort into
00:22:43.260 bringing battery manufacturing out of China and bringing it domestic. Now that alone,
00:22:51.820 if the reason that you could bring domestic manufacturing of batteries to the United States
00:22:57.820 is only because those manufacturers will see that there are going to be a lot of electric cars,
00:23:05.580 right? So the government can create the market for the electric cars, which creates the economic
00:23:11.340 conditions where a free market will say, oh, we should make these batteries in the United States,
00:23:17.820 because people aren't going to want to buy them in China. And maybe we could use robots
00:23:22.460 to make them just as cheaply in the United States, because you probably can. I would imagine
00:23:27.820 it's mostly robots. And our robots cost the same as China's robots.
00:23:33.100 So in the long term, Biden may be goosing our battery industry by artificially putting a,
00:23:40.940 you know, putting a big pressure on the car manufacturing industry. And we could actually
00:23:46.380 come out way ahead on this. So we could come out way ahead, not only in reduction of electricity,
00:23:55.180 but this could be the thing that forces nuclear power. Because I'm just reading a thread by Alex
00:24:03.660 Epstein. Now, there are a number of people I respect a lot who are going to say this is a bad idea.
00:24:09.980 I'm not going to ignore them, because they're credible people who are doing the math.
00:24:14.700 But the part of the math that you can't do is the future. Nobody can do math in the future.
00:24:21.660 You can do math of what it would cost today. And so here's the flags that people are raising,
00:24:28.620 the warning flags. And Alex Epstein does this well. Right now, we don't have an electrical grid
00:24:37.020 that can produce enough electricity for massive electric cars. But I think that that's what forces
00:24:46.620 us to get one. I think what forces us to do nuclear energy, what forces us to fix our grid is necessity.
00:24:58.220 You just have too many cars and you just won't be able to, you won't be able to heat your home or
00:25:02.620 cook your food unless you fix all that stuff, which we need to fix. So I'm not entirely sure
00:25:11.100 this is a bad idea. I think that it's unpredictable. And I think that nobody can do the economics that
00:25:18.540 far in the future to know if the disruption in the present is going to pay for itself in the future.
00:25:23.740 That's unknowable. And I used to do that for a living, right? It was my job to predict the economics
00:25:30.060 in the future when I worked for a bank and for the phone company. And this is one that I can tell
00:25:35.020 you for sure there's nobody who can predict the economics of this. So if you're automatically
00:25:41.340 against it because you can't see how it makes sense for the environment yet, or you can't see how it
00:25:49.260 makes any difference with China yet in terms of their control of our supply chain, or you can't see how
00:25:56.060 how we would produce enough clean energy so it's actually cleaner than burning coal to produce
00:26:01.740 electricity. Yet. It's a bold move. It's a bold move, but if you see it in terms of economics,
00:26:12.220 maybe it's a little sketchy. If you see it in terms of homeland security, as it is the best way to
00:26:19.180 bring our supply chain home for the most important stuff, batteries, then it starts to make a lot more sense.
00:26:28.460 So that's what Biden is doing wrong. He needs to connect his battery manufacturing part of his plans
00:26:34.540 to his EV plans, and then it starts making sense. But as a national security question,
00:26:41.420 not strictly economics. Not strictly.
00:26:46.940 All right. Well, I'll just put that out there.
00:26:50.380 And, um, let's see what else is going on.
00:26:58.300 So, so you know, Trump is being investigated for his documents. And I've been trying to reconcile the
00:27:06.860 following statements. Statement number one, Trump said he gave the government back all their classified
00:27:14.940 documents that they asked for. But at the same time, the government says, you did not give us all the
00:27:21.740 government owned documents. Are those opposites? Okay. Trump says, I gave you all the government owned
00:27:30.140 documents. The government says, you did not give us all the government owned documents. Is one of them
00:27:37.900 lying? Is one of them lying? One says, you did give us all the government owned documents. The other says,
00:27:46.540 you didn't give us all those are opposites, right? So somebody's lying. Those are opposites.
00:27:53.100 Not necessarily. Correct. Not necessarily. And here's how I predict this is going to go.
00:28:02.380 Government says, we have proof you didn't give us the documents owned by the government.
00:28:08.300 Trump says, those were my documents. That's the case. Government says, but you didn't give us all
00:28:17.500 the government documents. Trump says, I gave you all of your documents. The ones I kept were mine.
00:28:23.100 That's what it's going to be. And that is going to be a difference of opinions of whether the
00:28:30.460 actions that Trump took could make them no longer government classified, but maybe they're still
00:28:38.220 government owned. But I'll bet you he's going to have an argument that he declassified them
00:28:45.420 and that he owns them. I'll bet he'll make that argument. And I don't think that you can prove
00:28:53.500 that he meant otherwise. Now, the argument that I think you should press harder, I've only heard him
00:29:00.380 say it once, and he doesn't say it as directly as I do. And it would go like this. A president can
00:29:06.620 declassify anything. And there's no rules for how he does it, or she. There are no rules. It's just
00:29:14.060 they have the power. So one way they could do it is to say, whenever I snap my fingers over a document,
00:29:21.020 it is declassified. And then that would be the rule. Because the president gets to say how it's done.
00:29:29.820 He could say, whenever I sprinkle salt on a document, it is now declassified. And then that would actually
00:29:37.820 be legal. Because there's no rule that says he has to do it a certain way. The way he says he does it
00:29:45.340 is by taking the man of the secured place. And I completely agree with that argument.
00:29:52.460 If the president takes something from a secure place to an unsecure place, or less secure for
00:29:59.220 classified documents, in my view, whether it was Biden or Trump or anybody else, as long as there's
00:30:06.380 no specific rule telling them how to declassify, that is declassified. In my opinion, that argument is
00:30:14.340 airtight. To me, I don't see any way he could lose that case. Because you can't give me 12 people
00:30:23.460 who will disagree with that point. You can get several. But you're not going to get 12 jurors
00:30:29.620 to say, no, I don't agree that if there are no rules about how to do it, then simply moving it from
00:30:36.500 secure to unsecure is all you need to know. There'll be a few jurors, maybe most, who will say,
00:30:44.100 yeah, it's an unspecified process. It would be pretty obvious that he means them to be
00:30:50.500 declassified by his actions. If that's his argument. So, all right. Yeah, I think that government owned
00:31:00.660 is going to be where everything falls apart. Now, Trump is complaining that this, I guess the guy who's
00:31:07.220 looking into all this stuff, Jack Smith, apparently he and his family are big anti-Trumpers.
00:31:13.700 How in the world do we allow somebody who has a known history of being anti the defendant,
00:31:20.980 I'm too early to call him a defendant, but you know what I mean. The subject of the investigation,
00:31:25.940 Agent Smith, oh my God. It's Agent Smith from The Matrix. How in the world do we allow that?
00:31:38.900 Like, that is so un-American that we know the person who's investigating hates the subject.
00:31:45.380 That's just so wrong. I'm sure it happens all the time. But when it comes to politics,
00:31:52.100 if you know the person has a problem with the subject, I mean, Trump has a completely good point here.
00:32:01.060 And then there's all this leaking that seems to be coming out, which is purely to damage Trump.
00:32:11.860 And now there's new, I guess there's some, some new lawsuits against Trump. So they're basically
00:32:18.100 trying to bury him in lawfare, which I feel like there needs to be some kind of legislation
00:32:25.940 that says if you get the nomination that all your legal actions have to be suspended until you're out of office.
00:32:35.620 Now, you might have to make an exception if it's like a felony, I don't know, there would have to be some exceptions.
00:32:43.220 But for the little stuff, I don't want anybody to take my candidate out of action by a whole bunch of BS lawsuits.
00:32:55.940 Yeah, I think that they should not be charged while they're running for office, once they got the nomination, or while they're in office.
00:33:04.760 I think that should just be, you just got to wait. Sorry, got to wait four years, or eight.
00:33:11.860 Yeah.
00:33:15.740 So this abortion pill situation that one court said you couldn't have the pill, and then another court reversed the reversal.
00:33:23.220 So now you can have it, but only under certain restrictions, so it's more restricted than it would have been.
00:33:31.980 I'll tell you, I have respect for Republicans for pushing as hard as they do on abortion,
00:33:39.200 because they believe it.
00:33:41.460 Like it's a genuine belief of what's good and bad.
00:33:44.420 And it's, you know, it's well-intentioned.
00:33:48.880 So I'm always impressed when people are consistent and well-intentioned.
00:33:54.320 And you ever notice that people will say they believe something, but they don't act like it?
00:33:59.860 Well, the Republicans really act the way they talk.
00:34:04.440 The Republicans are completely throwing away their best chance at power to keep abortion as illegal as possible.
00:34:13.620 Now, I'm not saying I agree with their stand, because I stand of abortion. 0.54
00:34:17.660 I prefer women to work it out. 1.00
00:34:20.300 Keep the men out of it, as far as I'm concerned.
00:34:23.600 You other men can do what you want, it's a free country, but that's just my stand.
00:34:28.120 So I'm not making an argument for or against abortion, in case it sounds like that.
00:34:31.700 I'm simply complimenting Republicans for taking a hard choice, which is really giving up a lot, in terms of political power, a lot, for that principle.
00:34:45.080 And I respect that.
00:34:47.960 It's just, it's hard to see a principle stand anymore.
00:34:51.860 And when you see one, you've got to respect it.
00:34:54.500 So, all right, here's my theme I told you I was going to get to about the brainwashed generation.
00:35:03.220 So probably most of you watching this know that back 70 years ago, Alan Dulles and the CIA launched a mind control program on the population of the United States.
00:35:15.440 It was called MKUltra, and among other things, they, and there were lots of components of it, and it convinced movies and TV shows and probably the news to cover the news in a way that turned Americans into productive, good Americans.
00:35:34.620 And made us, you know, hate the commies and whatever else they wanted us to think.
00:35:38.340 Now, I grew up in that generation, so I was the MKUltra brainwashed generation, and literally brainwashed. 0.60
00:35:49.120 Now, you know that when you do the Pledge of Allegiance or sing the National Anthem, the purpose of that is brainwashing.
00:35:56.740 We just call it patriotism.
00:35:58.800 But the whole point of it is to take humans who would maybe be more tribal by nature and give them a larger collective purpose called the United States.
00:36:11.020 And then we have this reason to work together because we're part of the United States.
00:36:17.760 It's the best brainwashing you could ever do.
00:36:21.360 Completely useful, positive.
00:36:24.340 You could do it wrong.
00:36:25.260 I mean, you could brainwash people into becoming Nazis.
00:36:28.700 But you can't not do it.
00:36:32.140 You can't have a country where you're not trying to shape the citizens into a productive forum.
00:36:38.540 You just can't run a country that way.
00:36:41.160 So in more modern years, that MKUltra thing was disbanded.
00:36:49.100 So here's what I think happened.
00:36:51.300 When MKUltra and the CIA were running our brains, they did a good job, meaning they taught people to be patriotic.
00:37:00.660 Everybody I know that I grew up with was patriotic.
00:37:04.240 We were just brainwashed in this very productive way.
00:37:07.600 Now, it wasn't, let's say, honest, because America has done a lot of crappy things.
00:37:14.420 And so, you know, the brainwashing would de-emphasize that because nobody wants you to hate your country.
00:37:21.140 You're not going to join the military or pay your taxes if you hate your country.
00:37:25.260 So even though it's dishonest and evil, you know, if you dig down one layer, it's pretty evil.
00:37:32.820 It's also necessary.
00:37:35.080 There's just no way around it.
00:37:36.420 So now, what happens if you take away that central mind control and let people's own minds make up their minds or allow whatever, you know, grifters or media competition makes up our minds?
00:37:54.780 So the predictable result is that we've become more tribal.
00:38:00.640 We call it identity, but it's just tribal.
00:38:03.940 It's people saying, I'm a certain kind of person.
00:38:07.460 I must fight for the rights for the people who are like my certain kind of person.
00:38:11.660 That's the opposite of MKUltra.
00:38:14.520 MKUltra would have said, you're an American.
00:38:17.060 You have equal opportunities.
00:38:18.720 Go make something of yourself.
00:38:21.680 So our entire operating system for the United States, which was unethical, which is we were all being brainwashed and lied to, but it worked.
00:38:32.480 It worked really well.
00:38:34.640 Now we have a system, which is everybody gets to make up their own mind, and we're looking at grifters and fake news, and we're getting all worked up by social media.
00:38:43.880 So that's what we replaced it with.
00:38:46.160 Chaos.
00:38:47.480 And the chaos is doing exactly what you'd expect.
00:38:50.960 It's making us more tribal.
00:38:52.440 Like, you look at yourself now as your race or your religion or your gender preference.
00:39:00.800 Way more than you used to.
00:39:03.320 So that's where we're going.
00:39:04.760 Let me give you some examples of things.
00:39:09.820 So this will all fit under this umbrella.
00:39:12.800 So I saw a David Boxenhorn tweet, which I'll read to you.
00:39:15.640 He says, Republicans are stupid for letting Democrats paint their anti-crime, anti-illegal immigration, and pro-school choice policies as anti-minority.
00:39:26.740 Minorities are the primary beneficiaries of these policies. 0.96
00:39:31.100 Can we get Republicans to change the messaging to appeal to minorities?
00:39:34.900 Now, I can see the problem here, which is the Republican approach is to not say we're doing something special for any group.
00:39:47.580 It's that sort of opposite of being a Republican.
00:39:50.400 Rather, you might say we're doing things for poor people, but it's because they're poor, not because of their race or anything else.
00:39:57.960 So there's a little bit of a Republican problem in messaging, even though I think the point is true. 0.82
00:40:07.360 But I think there's a way to do it.
00:40:09.640 I think that there is a way for the Republicans to say, look, we're the ones who are helping you if you're poor, if you're black, if you're a minority.
00:40:19.460 All of our things help you.
00:40:22.460 The Democrats' things will not help you.
00:40:24.640 Because I think it's pretty easy to sell people on the idea that law and order is good for everybody.
00:40:34.480 Pandora Papers.
00:40:35.540 Never heard of Mike Gill or the Pandora Papers.
00:40:38.800 Somebody's yelling at me in all caps that there's some important story I've missed.
00:40:42.520 Never heard of them.
00:40:44.080 So it's not in the regular news, so I don't know what you're talking about.
00:40:49.160 So, all right.
00:40:52.860 So I agree with that.
00:40:54.020 The Republicans are doing more than they're saying they're doing.
00:40:57.940 In other words, they're proposing better benefits for minorities than minorities are aware of, and they should make a better case for that.
00:41:07.540 I think they should.
00:41:09.620 All right.
00:41:11.260 Here's Stephen Collinson on CNN.
00:41:14.340 He's one of their opinion people.
00:41:15.500 They like to try to mount a few times a week to say bad things about Trump.
00:41:22.220 And Collinson is going through all of Trump's mounting legal problems, even though, in my opinion, none of them are anything but trivial or stupid.
00:41:32.960 But there are a lot of them.
00:41:34.340 Can't argue with that.
00:41:35.260 And here's how Collinson wrote about this.
00:41:41.180 He said, yet another investigation, this one in Georgia, over Trump's attempt to find just enough voters to try to steal President Joe Biden's victory in the swing state.
00:41:54.140 What?
00:41:54.740 What?
00:41:56.780 This is an opinion piece.
00:41:58.440 It's not a mind-reading piece.
00:42:00.420 You would literally have to know what the president's inner thoughts were to say this as a fact.
00:42:07.760 Well, I've not even seen evidence that Trump believed he was stealing an election.
00:42:14.080 Well, evidences are of that.
00:42:15.820 There's no evidence of that.
00:42:17.460 There's plenty of evidence that he genuinely believed the election was rigged.
00:42:21.960 Plenty of evidence of that.
00:42:25.120 Am I right?
00:42:26.620 With all of the investigations, has there been one shred of evidence that Trump believed the election was fair and he was trying to steal it?
00:42:36.180 All of these conversations, you know, all of the investigation, not a shred, not a shred.
00:42:45.460 And with no sense of embarrassment whatsoever, Collinson puts this on a new site.
00:42:51.300 It's, you know, it's an opinion, but it's on a new site that he was trying to steal victory.
00:43:01.440 That is absolutely not in evidence.
00:43:04.820 It's not impossible.
00:43:06.740 But it's the least likely explanation.
00:43:09.720 And it's not in evidence in any way.
00:43:12.300 Not in any way.
00:43:14.640 So it's amazing.
00:43:15.860 So I would say that CNN has failed in their quest to be balanced.
00:43:23.380 I mean, this is a pretty bad failure in my mind.
00:43:25.560 So he's got some mind-reading going on there.
00:43:28.820 All right.
00:43:29.240 This story from the New York Post that America isn't nearly as racist as we thought.
00:43:37.840 So there was a Florida State professor who is black, who for years has been faking racism studies to show that racism was worse than it is. 0.64
00:43:49.140 And now it's known that they're fake.
00:43:51.680 And he actually made up the data.
00:43:54.460 When I say made up, he left out data that was not going to make his case.
00:44:00.480 He left it out.
00:44:01.340 So how many other studies on racism are also fake?
00:44:07.500 Most.
00:44:11.040 Most.
00:44:11.960 Probably most.
00:44:13.060 Because everybody who does a study is motivated.
00:44:15.880 There's nobody who does a study on race who doesn't have an opinion of what they want it to be.
00:44:21.600 Right?
00:44:21.960 They're all trying to show something.
00:44:24.260 Don't you think that they can find data to prove anything they want?
00:44:27.560 Of course they can.
00:44:28.720 Just like masks.
00:44:30.120 You can find any data you want on race.
00:44:32.720 It's either getting way worse or way better, and you can prove it either way.
00:44:36.760 So, and then here's a related story, and I'm going to tie these all together.
00:44:41.580 So the Wall Street Journal has an editorial by a gentleman who says it might be partly his own fault that corporations are acting so woke.
00:44:53.500 Now this is interesting.
00:44:55.540 So this is from Gregory T. Angelo, and I guess he was a big advocate for gay rights.
00:45:05.880 And so years ago, when gay rights were much less than they are now, he was part of a group of people who were pressuring corporations to take a public stand where normally they would not.
00:45:20.020 And he succeeded.
00:45:21.400 He got corporations to, you know, try to speak out and influence the government and to become more, you know, friendly to gay marriage, et cetera.
00:45:30.640 And he's saying that basically now that went too far.
00:45:35.560 So he's also saying it probably didn't make a difference.
00:45:40.360 He's saying that the public's opinion about gay marriage and stuff probably would have gone the way it went anyway.
00:45:47.260 So the corporations probably didn't make anything happen faster that wasn't going to happen anyway.
00:45:51.900 But now corporations routinely get involved because other advocates can force them the same way the gay advocates did. 0.58
00:46:01.300 So he's saying that, you know, now there's just too much wokeism because everybody found that same trick.
00:46:08.760 He had their bullies.
00:46:10.240 Now, it's easy to get the corporations to get on board because you just have to say, if you do these things, we'll say good things about you.
00:46:17.740 If you don't do these things, we'll malign you in public.
00:46:21.900 Well, it's kind of an easy choice.
00:46:24.240 Do whatever doesn't get you attacked.
00:46:27.860 So, and then here's the story that the AP has about me.
00:46:33.380 If you Google my name, Google will surface as its top stories where it summarizes stories.
00:46:40.400 It will summarize the controversy about me.
00:46:43.460 And then one of the top links that Google has chosen, you should see, is credited to the AP.
00:46:50.780 And this is what it says about me.
00:46:52.460 Many comic creators said they'd stopped reading Dilbert over the past several years, finding the strips tone darker and its creators' descent into misogyny, anti-immigration and racism alarming.
00:47:07.080 None of that happened in the real world.
00:47:12.300 Nothing even remotely like that happened.
00:47:15.440 There's nothing about Dilbert or me being misogynist.
00:47:19.300 I'm not even accused of it.
00:47:21.540 There's not even like, there's not even a fake accusation.
00:47:25.060 There's nothing.
00:47:25.860 How about anti-immigration?
00:47:29.220 That's one of the things my audience doesn't like, is that I'm so pro-immigration.
00:47:34.220 I do think we should have complete ability to close the border.
00:47:38.820 It would be stupid not to.
00:47:40.560 That's not anti-immigration.
00:47:42.520 That's pro-controlling your country. 0.98
00:47:44.360 But this exists on Google like it's a fact.
00:47:51.660 Anybody who reads that is going to think that really happened.
00:47:55.280 That comic creators stopped reading Dilbert because of its descent into the strip's darker tones.
00:48:06.600 The strip didn't have any darker tones.
00:48:09.180 That never happened.
00:48:11.480 Dilbert was completely non-political.
00:48:14.360 Completely.
00:48:15.640 It never had any darker tones at all.
00:48:20.780 And this lives on Google, credited to the AP as a fact.
00:48:28.860 Amazing.
00:48:30.160 Amazing.
00:48:30.920 Now let me pull it all together.
00:48:33.020 So you see the AP and Google boldly putting fake news about me.
00:48:37.640 You see that the corporation's being pushed to be more woke.
00:48:42.540 You see fake stories about racism that become part of our texture of what we think is true.
00:48:49.460 And you see CNN can still just lie that they can read the mind of a president.
00:48:58.060 So when MKUltra stopped and tribalism went crazy,
00:49:05.100 at the same time as clicking a story became the way you could track its popularity,
00:49:11.460 all of these forces created everybody to be at everybody else's necks.
00:49:16.880 Everybody just joined a team and started fighting.
00:49:19.000 So I hate to say it, but what the country needs is a lot more brainwashing.
00:49:26.320 I hate to say it, because brainwashing is evil, it's immoral, it's unethical,
00:49:32.560 and it's certainly not the freedom that you would want,
00:49:36.700 but complete chaos has got a cost.
00:49:41.420 It's got a pretty...
00:49:42.180 Now you're asking if it stopped, and I would say it did stop in the sense of patriotism.
00:49:48.480 There's definitely no MKUltra going on to make you more patriotic.
00:49:53.080 I'm sure that's not happening.
00:49:54.520 There may be other influences, you know, to, let's say, to make Ukraine a popular war.
00:50:03.500 Have you ever wondered about that?
00:50:05.520 Do you think that the citizens of the United States independently consumed the news
00:50:10.640 and then decided that supporting Ukraine was in their best interest?
00:50:16.320 No.
00:50:17.660 Now, whatever happened there was brainwashing,
00:50:20.700 but we don't know, you know, who did it or exactly how.
00:50:25.840 But you are brainwashed about Ukraine.
00:50:28.600 Make no mistake about that.
00:50:30.540 Maybe not you personally.
00:50:32.120 But the country is completely brainwashed.
00:50:34.920 Now, is that bad?
00:50:36.540 I'm not saying it's bad.
00:50:38.680 This is where I'm being a little provocative.
00:50:42.060 Brainwashing is a necessity because the alternative is worse.
00:50:46.840 It's just not ethical.
00:50:48.540 It's not ethical and also completely necessary.
00:50:54.880 It's a bad situation to be in, but it's the only one we have.
00:50:59.960 So, yes, the news is completely non-credible and fake.
00:51:04.560 Everything you think you know is garbage.
00:51:08.040 And here we are.
00:51:10.060 So, this is why I keep saying that the importance of what I call the Internet dads is such a big deal.
00:51:20.040 The fact that Elon Musk is calling out the fake news for being fake is really useful because of his position and he's credible.
00:51:30.280 And I think that when I do it, it's useful.
00:51:32.100 I think that when anybody else, you know, Cernovich, anybody else does it, it's useful.
00:51:35.840 So, keep trying to be useful.
00:51:39.740 All right.
00:51:40.120 I ran into a nest of NPCs and I had to back out and cancel my tweet because the NPC action was too big.
00:51:48.160 And I'm going to see how many NPCs I can surface with the same trick.
00:51:53.440 Would you like to watch this experiment?
00:51:54.800 I'm going to read you a story and then we're going to watch the NPC comments come in.
00:52:00.940 Here's the story.
00:52:02.560 The government has figured out how to, not every time, but certainly they can do it,
00:52:08.420 penetrate the privacy of Bitcoin so that they can find out who spent Bitcoin on what illegal things.
00:52:16.320 So, now, if you think you can use Bitcoin to get away with the crime, the government has tools,
00:52:23.280 which they've been developing over time, where they can somewhat reliably catch you.
00:52:31.440 Now, NPCs, please do your thing.
00:52:37.900 Go ahead.
00:52:39.680 That's not news, Peter.
00:52:41.000 Thank you.
00:52:42.200 First one.
00:52:43.960 Can't you already do that on the blockchain?
00:52:46.320 Well, that's not quite NPC, but that's where I'm heading.
00:52:52.900 Same with money.
00:52:54.200 Okay.
00:52:55.380 Granted.
00:52:56.720 It's called the ledger.
00:52:57.980 Boom.
00:52:58.360 We got it.
00:52:58.860 First NPC.
00:52:59.940 It's called the ledger.
00:53:01.780 May I do my NPC impersonation?
00:53:05.800 I'm going to ask Dale to come in and do this.
00:53:11.220 I removed the tweet so that people would stop explaining this to me.
00:53:16.320 Scott, did you not know that the entire point of the blockchain is that it's a public record that's permanent of where every penny went?
00:53:29.780 Scott, did you not know that?
00:53:31.700 How do you not know that it's a public ledger?
00:53:34.600 It's a public ledger.
00:53:36.300 It's a public ledger.
00:53:36.820 Public.
00:53:38.220 Public.
00:53:39.620 Everybody can see it.
00:53:40.700 Well, Dale, I know that, and therefore, by its nature, it never really could be completely private.
00:53:50.880 But, so, that's so obvious that I don't think it needs to be stated.
00:53:57.160 That if it's a public ledger, even though, you know, the keys are secret or whatever, clearly the government will figure out a way to penetrate it.
00:54:07.200 And if they can't do that, they can put you in jail until you tell them your keys, your passwords.
00:54:12.440 So, no, there is no way that I ever believe that Bitcoin could be private in the long run, Dale.
00:54:23.840 So, no, when I say that the government has tools, I'm really trying to tell other people what I've known since the first day I heard about Bitcoin,
00:54:32.980 which is, if the ledger is public, clearly there's some way to penetrate it.
00:54:39.060 There's going to be a way.
00:54:41.080 Maybe not on day one, but there's definitely going to be a way.
00:54:45.080 No, it's not private.
00:54:47.060 In fact, I believe there's no such thing as any privacy.
00:54:51.020 At all.
00:54:53.220 There's none.
00:54:54.620 I've got devices listening to me, potentially.
00:54:57.600 The government can look at all my records if they're interested.
00:55:01.380 They just have to be interested, right?
00:55:05.340 So, Dale, I have always understood that a public ledger could never be safely private.
00:55:15.340 But what I don't think you understand is that from the very beginning, the ledger has been public.
00:55:21.480 See, so that's what I was dealing with this morning.
00:55:35.740 The number of NPCs explaining to me that something in public can never be private.
00:55:41.340 Didn't really need to hear that.
00:55:43.080 Did not need to know that.
00:55:45.820 All right.
00:55:46.760 So, don't do your crimes on Bitcoin.
00:55:48.480 Bitcoin.
00:55:49.560 I guess that's what we need to know.
00:55:53.460 Can it be penetrated by the BBC?
00:55:56.480 Excellent question.
00:55:59.700 Eric, you have your wish.
00:56:01.220 I am paying attention to you right now.
00:56:05.920 What were you trying to say?
00:56:08.220 What?
00:56:08.460 Am I familiar with...
00:56:16.460 All the crazy people always use caps.
00:56:18.900 It's always so funny that they...
00:56:20.620 So, Hot Pocket says in all caps,
00:56:22.820 Are you familiar with Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty?
00:56:28.420 No.
00:56:30.400 Moving on.
00:56:31.160 The number of times that somebody shouts at me in caps to ask me if I know about some obscure individual,
00:56:40.580 it's like always caps.
00:56:42.560 Have you heard of John K. Smith?
00:56:51.000 All right.
00:56:54.900 Should Biden be telling kids that Jesse Helms is the key to success?
00:56:58.340 I don't think he is.
00:57:05.800 Why do so many old people think that Elon Musk is so cool and smart? 1.00
00:57:11.040 Huh.
00:57:12.500 I wonder.
00:57:14.300 Has he ever done anything cool or smart?
00:57:17.540 Huh.
00:57:17.900 Huh.
00:57:22.020 He only does something cool and smart every fucking day.
00:57:25.600 There's nobody who's done more cool or smart things in either category.
00:57:31.500 Nobody's done more cool things and nobody's done more smart things.
00:57:34.960 But definitely, nobody's done more cool, smart things every day than that one person.
00:57:47.160 All right.
00:57:47.860 I'm just going to ignore all your caps.
00:57:56.180 All right.
00:57:56.440 Here's the new rule.
00:57:57.920 Everything in all caps gets ignored from now on.
00:58:00.800 Got that?
00:58:03.200 Everything in all caps gets ignored.
00:58:06.080 So I won't read any comments, even if they're super chats.
00:58:09.260 Well, that lit up locals.
00:58:17.940 All right.
00:58:19.480 What's that say?
00:58:26.000 Oh, somebody lost all respect for me.
00:58:28.600 You're MKUltra joke, calling it not regular news.
00:58:35.960 All right.
00:58:36.180 So that's just crazy talk.
00:58:38.380 And dismissing the Pandora Papers and Mike Gill.
00:58:41.340 The biggest story of our lifetime.
00:58:44.980 I didn't dismiss it.
00:58:46.520 I said I'd never heard of them.
00:58:49.200 That's the biggest story of our lifetime.
00:58:50.780 All right.
00:58:55.740 I'm going to read this comment in all caps.
00:58:58.840 You're the best, sexiest cartoonist ever.
00:59:01.640 All right.
00:59:01.880 But that's just the only exception.
00:59:04.640 That's the only exception.
00:59:07.420 Compliments in caps.
00:59:09.420 Stop it.
00:59:10.580 Stop it.
00:59:11.960 It's funny.
00:59:12.680 I get it.
00:59:15.040 It's the Panama Papers.
00:59:18.740 All right.
00:59:19.460 Well, I'm pretty sure that the Panama Papers I've heard of.
00:59:29.560 You're not the most based boomer that I know of.
00:59:33.020 Well, you take that back.
00:59:35.220 Can you believe it?
00:59:36.360 Somebody is accusing me of not being the most based boomer?
00:59:41.020 Oh, come on. 0.87
00:59:41.780 I've got to be in the top three.
00:59:46.900 All right.
00:59:52.540 You're looking more in shape.
00:59:54.340 Damn it.
00:59:54.940 That worked.
00:59:56.680 See, now the YouTube people are complimenting me in all caps.
01:00:00.120 I totally fell for it.
01:00:02.900 All right.
01:00:03.640 Well, thank you.
01:00:14.400 All right.
01:00:14.920 Well, I'll look up the Panama Papers.
01:00:17.500 I'm pretty sure that I already know about the Panama Papers.
01:00:20.440 I just forget that they're called the Panama Papers.
01:00:22.440 It would be unusual if I did not already know that story.
01:00:37.960 I'm so based, my house has no foundation.
01:00:41.600 That's a good one.
01:00:44.260 MKUltra was about acid, partly.
01:00:48.340 What about Sam Harris?
01:00:49.740 That's an interesting question.
01:00:52.740 What about Sam Harris?
01:00:54.600 What about him?
01:00:57.160 All right.
01:00:57.760 Is it the Pandora Papers?
01:01:00.120 Is it the Panama Papers?
01:01:07.020 All right.
01:01:07.720 Well, that's all for now, YouTube.
01:01:09.560 I'm going to say bye for now.
01:01:10.660 You can only talk about Pandora, Panama.
01:01:14.020 And I'll see you.